Allentown Man Charged With Assault On Police

November 24, 1990|by KAREN YURCONIC, The Morning Call

A 28-year-old man was charged with two counts of aggravated assault Thursday night, after he punched a police officer and bit another in the finger, when Allentown officers were trying to arrest him, police said.

Officers Ronnie Spruill and Marcia Wister went to 109 N. 2nd St. just before 6:30 p.m. on a call of a man with a knife, Lt. Francis Peters said. When police arrived they found Angel Luis Ramos standing on the porch. Ramos, who lives at 521 E. Cumberland St., Allentown, did not have a knife but was drunk, Peters said.

Ramos was "doing a lot of yelling and screaming," and cursing at people inside the house, where his mother, Maria Vasquez, lives, "trying to get somebody to come out to fight with him," Peters said.

When Spruill and Wister told him to stop, Ramos challenged the officers and he was put under arrest. Ramos punched Spruill in the head and bit him in the finger and punched Wister in the mouth as they tried to put handcuffs on him, Peters said.

During the scuffle other officers responded because Spruill pulled his emergency pin to indicate he was in trouble; however, within a minute or two the situation was under control, police said. Peters said that other family members were yelling at police not to arrest Ramos.

Police were unable to determine why Ramos wanted to fight with people in the house, Peters said.

On Tuesday, Ramos got into an argument with police at Sacred Heart Hospital, where he works, because he complained no one was helping his 12-year-old son. He claims his son was injured when he was pushed out the rear door of a LANTA bus by other youths. Police still are investigating what actually happened.

In addition to the aggravated assault charges, District Justice Anthony Rapp arraigned Ramos early yesterday on charges of disorderly conduct, , recklessly endangering and resisting arrest and issued citations for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.

Rapp committed Ramos to Lehigh County Prison on $25,000 bail, allowing for 10 percent of that to be posted with Lehigh Valley Pre-Trial Services' approval.